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California Calrose Wins "World's Best Rice"
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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA -- Last week, hundreds of delegates from more than 30 countries gathered here for the 7th Annual TRT World Rice Conference, where it was announced that California Calrose rice was the recipient of the highly-coveted "World's Best Rice" award.
A panel of culinary experts and prominent international chefs chose Calrose rice as the "World's Best Rice" from an assortment of 25 entries submitted by delegates across the globe. California Calrose beat out Cambodia/Thai Fragrant Jasmine rice, the reigning "World's Best Rice" winner for the past three years.
Jeremy Zwinger, chairman and host of the conference, presented the award to Greg Van Dyke, a producer from Pleasant Grove, California, and member of the California Rice Commission.
"I'm deeply humbled and honored to receive this historic award on behalf of the California rice industry, home of world renowned Calrose Premium Rice," said Van Dyke. "For more than a century, multi-generational California rice farmers have self-funded cutting edge research in natural line, non-GMO, premium japonica varietal development. As a fifth generation California farmer, I am insanely proud to grow Calrose Premium Rice...the best rice in the world!"
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Yellow Rails & Rice Festival - A Festival Like No Other
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Photo credit: John Schwarz
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JENNINGS, LA -- One hundred and forty-five bird enthusiasts from 27 states and Canada gathered here Wednesday through Sunday for the seventh annual Yellow Rails and Rice Festival (YR&R). The festival brings birders together with rice farmers to highlight the role of Louisiana's working wetlands in bird conservation while providing participants a unique venue to view the Yellow Rail.
Although the Yellow Rail is fairly widespread it is rarely seen so bird enthusiasts welcome the opportunity to catch sight of the migrating Rails as they arrive in southern Louisiana at the same time the ratoon rice crop is being harvested.
Donna Dittman, a founder of YR&R, said, "Although we designed this festival with fun in mind, its primary goal is to bring birders and farmers together to emphasize the value our area's working wetlands have for wildlife."
USA Rice is one of 50 organizations that sponsor the festival. The Louisiana Rice Growers Association and Hoppe Farms provided gift bags of Louisiana-grown rice to festival participants.
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USA Rice Hosts Chinese Delegation
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ARLINGTON, VA -- A twenty-member delegation headed by China's State Administration of Grain visited USA Rice yesterday for an in-depth discussion of USA Rice's mission and promotion activities, and the U.S. rice industry. Representatives from the national government based in Beijing as well as members of provincial and local grain administration groups made up the group.
USA Rice COO Bob Cummings and Jim Guinn, vice president of international promotion, provided information on USA Rice's structure, membership, and collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the international promotion of U.S. rice.
"Yesterday's meeting was a useful exchange of information about the rice sectors in both countries and provided a good opportunity to educate the Chinese about the market-driven nature of the U.S. rice industry," said Cummings.
"We made sure the delegation was aware of our industry's focus on providing China's consumers with high quality U.S. rice once the market is open to U.S. exports," concluded Guinn.
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| CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures | CME Group (Prelim): Closing Rough Rice Futures for November 3
| November 2015 | $11.895 |
+ $0.010
| | January 2016 | $12.175 |
+ $0.005
| | March 2016 | $12.435 |
+ $0.005
| | May 2016 | $12.685 |
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| | July 2016 | $12.920
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| September 2016
| $12.535
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| November 2016
| $12.535
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In the News
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Around Washington
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest $30 million this year in 33 new projects and 40 existing projects to improve water quality in high priority watersheds the Mississippi River Basin.
Around the Country
Lower prices for corn and other crops, plus the recent rollback in tax breaks, have crimped farmers' spending on equipment. Leasing helps generate demand during what has become the biggest downturn in the farm machinery market in more than a decade.
Close to 60,000 jobs are set to open up in agriculture, food and natural resource sectors each year for the next five years, according to a report from Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Science and Technology
Analysis centers on what are called domestication sweeps, regions of the genomes of cultivated rice varieties that differ from wild populations and that researchers believe were selected for by early farmers seeking to enhance desirable plant traits.
Tariffs and Trade
Iraq's parliament voted to block the prime minister from unilaterally passing anticorruption measures and other reforms, dealing a setback to the U.S.-backed leader as he struggles to tackle an economic crisis and fight the Islamic State insurgency.
Iraq's acting trade minister sacked the head of its powerful grain board and six other officials over graft allegations, sources said on Tuesday, as part of a comprehensive operation aimed to "cleanse the ministry of officials who have any hint of corruption."
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